Brian Waweru: Kin say murder suspect was drug addict
Brian Waweru, who is the main suspect in the macabre murder of his girlfriend, 24-year-old Everlyn Wanjiru, in Ndenderu, Kiambu County on Monday, is a drug addict.
Family members claimed Waweru had been in and out of rehabilitation centres but had not dropped his habit.
Yesterday, his aunt, Nelly Nyamwathi, said efforts to rehabilitate him had been unsuccessful.
Doing drugs
“We have tried everything to help him stop doing drugs to no avail. We even took him to a rehabilitation centre last year hoping that he would change but he seemingly became worse,” she said.
Nyamwathi said that on Tuesday, Waweru called her and asked for food, saying he was hungry and had no money.
“He called me with a different number saying that he was hungry. I went to his house which he rented a month ago after relocating from Thindigua and upon knocking, I got no response.
It was then that I used a spare key he had asked me to keep for him but when I opened the door, I was shocked to see two female legs,” she said.
“I dashed out and called the premises caretaker and we together reported the matter to the Rweno Police Station,” she added.
His uncle, who did not want to be named, said that the suspect and the girlfriend had at one time sworn to die together.
“The two were inseparable. Relatives from both side tried all means to break their bond but they did not succeed,” he said
Detectives launched a manhunt for the suspect and arrested him on Wednesday in Ndenderu area.
He confessed to killing his girlfriend and led the police to the scene of crime and where he hid the knife he allegedly used to stab her.
Assault case
He was virtually arraigned in a Kiambu court but no charges were preferred against him with police making an application to detain him for 14 days to complete investigations.
Kiambu Principal Magistrate Manuela Kinyanjui approved the Investigating Officer Wilson Otieno’s application. The case will be mention on January 20.
Kiambaa Sub-County DCI boss Augustine Mutembei said the two had not been in talking terms since October last year, after Waweru assaulted Wanjiru, after which he was arrested by Thindigua Police Post officers.
He was charged before a Kiambu court and was out on cash bail when he allegedly committed the murder.
“During the Christmas period, he lured her into his house to celebrate his birthday only for him to stab her in the stomach fatally injuring her,” said the DCI boss.
Wanjiru’s father said Waweru’s family had approached him for an out of court settlement but he had rejected the overtures after he learnt that the suspect was a serial offender who also had a pending defilement case.
Nyamwathi said the suspect’s mother lives in the United States and she had sent him money for Waweru’s house rent and upkeep.
